Meeting of February 12, 2004

Dotty Dill
presented "Who Are These People", showing old
photos and discussing how to determine who the subject
was from the age of the photo, the dress style, facial
features and photographers' marks and of course your
Family History.

In addition, there
was a demonstration of how to take the face of a known
person and superimpose it over an unknown person's face
and see if there's a match. This was previously done at
our Computer Users' Group Meeting of 16 April 2003 and
can be seen here.

For this meeting's
demonstration, images were superimposed using the layer
feature in Photoshop Elements and one image had it's
transparancy incremented in 10% increments. Actually, the
images from Photoshop Elements were saved to disk and
then displayed through the Slide Show feature of a
program called IrfanView. The program was created by
Irfan Skiljan, a graduate of the Vienna School of
Science. The program is free but Irfan's home page is no
longer available. The program is available from Tucows at
http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967.html .